Thursday, March 08, 2007

Ok, strange things about me...

A fellow Swedish alien, Annika, challenged me in one of those blog "questionnaires" - six strange things about yourself (in connection to the essence of this blog... the even more strange, private things you have to e-mail me to know... haha).

So here we go...

* I have partied with the Norwegian crown prince Haakon's body guards in a night club on the 35 th floor in San Francisco (Haakon was busy with blonde Americans, haha)...

* I love(d) "catastrophe movies" (such as "Twister" or "Devil's Peak"), but since moving to this country, where the forces of nature are all too close they're beginning to get all too real for comfort...

* I have about 30 books on the Apollo program in my bookshelves (Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 being my favorites) and would love to go to the Nasa Space Center in Houston (I've already been twice to Kennedy Space Center)... and have a Saturn-V mini replica on my office desk...

* I wanted to be Goldie Hawn and take a ride down highway 1 in a convertible beetle, blasting Barry Manilov's "Ready to take a chance again" in the speakers, just like she did in Foul Play ("Tjejen som visste för mycket")...

* I've spent a night in the police station in the French Quarter in New Orleans, when on a road trip there from Chicago. Voluntarily.

* When I left my university exchange year and came back to Sweden and everyone asked me if I would want to go back and live in the US, I always answered "depends on where, but definitely not California". And here I am. 7 years now...

(I'm not passing it forward, seems all my blog friends have already done it or gotten the challenge - and I'm to shy to challenge perfect strangers!).

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This is where I grew up. 8506 km from California. Europe's fourth largest country in size, but tiny in population. Only 9 million of us. Meeting a Swede should probably be considered being unique! A part of my heart will always be here.